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Success: Mattel ends rainforest destruction in packaging
By: Rolf Skar, Greenpeace
Added: Oct 5, 2011
Rolf Skar of Greenpeace with a video posting on a big announcement today from Mattel about their paper packaging.
The U.S. Lacey Act: Good for Forests, Good for Jobs
By: Anne Middleton, Environmental Investigation Agency
Added: Oct 5, 2011
The recent media on Gibson Guitars has brought the Lacey Act straight into the spotlight. This is the second enforcement action against the company, known best for its iconic Les Paul electric guitars. Here are a few facts on the Gibson case, and how the Lacey Act impacts paper purchasers.
Greenhouse Gas Protocol Takes Steps to Recognize that Forest Carbon Counts
By: Joshua Martin, EPN Director
Added: Oct 4, 2011
The Forest Carbon Counts project of the Environmental Paper Network is watching closely as the Greenhouse Gas Protocol launched two new standards today. Developed by the World Resources Institute (WRI) and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), the Corporate Value Chain (Scope 3) and Product Life Cycle Standards seek to empower businesses to better measure, manage, and report their greenhouse gas emissions.
The Autumn of SFI's Discontent
By: Mark Schofield, ForestEthics
Added: Sep 21, 2011
Controversy escalated dramatically last week as the Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) showed up in Burlington, Vermont for their annual confab. Burlington, apparently, is not the type of community that readily accepts greenwashing of business-as-usual industrial logging.
Release: Seven More Brands Distance Themselves from 'Sustainable Forestry Initiative'
By: ForestEthics
Added: Sep 13, 2011
SAN FRANCISCO - Another group of Fortune 500 companies has joined a growing corporate movement against the Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI), a controversial industry-sponsored 'eco-label' that greenwashes environmentally damaging products. The trend began in March when seven other prominent brands, including Allstate, Office Depot and United Stationers announced action to stop using the SFI's 'eco-label' on branded paper products or company publications.
The RePaper Campus Challenge - Campuses Dig Deeper to Recover More Paper for Recycling
By: Pam Blackledge, RePaper Project Coordinator
Added: Sep 10, 2011
Fall means back to the books for students, and many of them will also be back to work at greening their campus. And what better, easier way to green a college campus than to improve their recycling system? The RePaper Campus Challenge helps campuses recover more paper by providing tools and resources to recover more paper for recycling, as well as tracking mechanisms to record their success.
Pearl River Fish Kill Culprit Reopens with Few New Protections
By: Matt Rota, Gulf Restoration Network
Added: Sep 8, 2011
On Saturday, August 13th of this year, fisherman and locals on the beautiful Pearl River in southeastern Louisiana began reported a foamy, black sludge in the river and a shocking number of dead or dying fresh water mussels, shrimp, several species of fish, including endangered Gulf sturgeon, larval stages of aquatic insects, and even turtles....
Slate Magazine Goes Back to School with Paper vs. Digital Notetaking Article
By: Joshua Martin, EPN Director
Added: Sep 7, 2011
In the back-to-school season, Slate Magazine took a look this week at the environmental impacts of the choice to take notes on paper or pixels, and the Environmental Paper Network helps adjust the frame of the question....
